Brody Wenger was going into his senior year at Eudora with a lot to look forward to. A multisport athlete in football and basketball, Wenger had a lot of plans for how he and his teams were going to perform. But that quickly changed when he woke up on a bus to a basketball camp at Creighton ...

Ten local athletes competed in the 2026 Special Olympics USA Games last week in Minnesota, with some athletes coming home with medals. Jennifer Goff competed in bocce alongside Scott Ball from Pittsburg. On Monday, the doubles team won three matches for Kansas in the round robin, starting with ...

The Kansas women’s basketball team finished 11th in the Big 12 and missed the NCAA Tournament despite featuring two of the best players in the league and perhaps the nation. Forward Jaliya Davis became the first power-conference player ever to win her league’s freshman of the week honor ...

Olivia Bruno needed a second opinion. When the former two-way standout for Kansas softball got a message in February from an Italian club team asking if she wanted to play for them, she had to consult Morgan Zerkle, her boss at Marshall. “I showed her the DM and I was like, ‘Is this ...

The Kansas softball team reached new heights, at least for Jennifer McFalls’ eight-year tenure as head coach, by earning a postseason bid in 2026. Now the work of replicating that performance continues, and the Jayhawks will have to go forward without an influential class of seniors that ...

In his previous stops as a baseball coach, Dan Fitzgerald worked with some talented players who went on to great success. Fitzgerald recruited Scott Schebler, from Prairie High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Des Moines Area Community College in what he described to The Athletic as his ...